1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and
Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, {and} Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have
nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: {but} Israel doth
not know, my people doth not consider.
1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers,
children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked
the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
1:5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole
head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head {there is} no soundness in it;
{but} wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed,
neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
1:7 Your country {is} desolate, your cities {are} burned with fire: your land,
strangers devour it in your presence, and {it is} desolate, as overthrown by
strangers.
1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in
a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
1:9 Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should
have been as Sodom, {and} we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
1:10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of
our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
1:11 To what purpose {is} the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the
Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and
I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to
tread my courts?
1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new
moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; {it is}
iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a
trouble unto me; I am weary to bear {them}.
1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea,
when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before
mine eyes; cease to do evil;
1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the
fatherless, plead for the widow.
1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be
as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool.
1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the
mouth of the Lord hath spoken {it}.
1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment;
righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
1:22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
1:23 Thy princes {are} rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth
gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth
the cause of the widow come unto them.
1:24 Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah,
I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and
take away all thy tin:
1:26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellers as at
the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the
faithful city.
1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
1:28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners {shall be}
together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall
be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
1:30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no
water.
1:31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they
shall both burn together, and none shall quench {them}.
2:1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, {that} the mountain of the
Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be
exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain
of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his
ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law,
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and
they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into
pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they
learn war any more.
2:5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
2:6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be
replenished from the east, and {are} soothsayers like the Philistines, and they
please themselves in the children of strangers.
2:7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither {is there any} end of
their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither {is there any} end
of their chariots:
2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands,
that which their own fingers have made:
2:9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore
forgive them not.
2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and
for the glory of his majesty.
2:11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall
be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
2:12 For the day of the Lord of hosts {shall be} upon every {one that is} proud
and lofty, and upon every {one that is} lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
2:13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, {that are} high and lifted up, and
upon all the oaks of Bashan,
2:14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills {that are} lifted
up,
2:15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
2:16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
2:17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men
shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
2:18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
2:19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the
earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth
to shake terribly the earth.
2:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold,
which they made {each one} for himself to worship, to the moles and to the
bats;
2:21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks,
for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to
shake terribly the earth.
2:22 Cease ye from man, whose breath {is} in his nostrils: for wherein is he to
be accounted of?
3:1 For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and
from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay
of water,
3:2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the
prudent, and the ancient,
3:3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the
cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
3:4 And I will give children {to be} their princes, and babes shall rule over
them.
3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by
his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and
the base against the honourable.
3:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father,
{saying}, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and {let} this ruin {be} under
thy hand:
3:7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my
house {is} neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and
their doings {are} against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
3:9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare
their sin as Sodom, they hide {it} not. Woe unto their soul! for they have
rewarded evil unto themselves.
3:10 Say ye to the righteous, that {it shall be} well {with him}: for they
shall eat the fruit of their doings.
3:11 Woe unto the wicked! {it shall be} ill {with him}: for the reward of his
hands shall be given him.
3:12 {As for} my people, children {are} their oppressors, and women rule over
them. O my people, they which lead thee cause {thee} to err, and destroy the
way of thy paths.
3:13 The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
3:14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the
princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor {is}
in your houses.
3:15 What mean ye {that} ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of
the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.
3:16 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and
walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing {as} they
go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
3:17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the
daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of {their} tinkling
ornaments {about their feet}, and {their} cauls, and {their} round tires like
the moon,
3:19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
3:20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the
tablets, and the earrings,
3:21 The rings, and nose jewels,
3:22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the
crisping pins,
3:23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
3:24 And it shall come to pass, {that} instead of sweet smell there shall be
stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness;
and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; {and} burning instead of
beauty.
3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she {being} desolate shall sit
upon the ground.
4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat
our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to
take away our reproach.
4:2 In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the
fruit of the earth {shall be} excellent and comely for them that are escaped of
Israel.
4:3 And it shall come to pass, {that he that is} left in Zion, and {he that}
remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, {even} every one that is written
among the living in Jerusalem:
4:4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion,
and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the
spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
4:5 And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon
her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by
night: for upon all the glory {shall be} a defence.
4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat,
and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
5:1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his
vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
5:2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with
the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a
winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it
brought forth wild grapes.
5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you,
betwixt me and my vineyard.
5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?
wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth
wild grapes?
5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take
away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; {and} break down the wall
thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there
shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain
no rain upon it.
5:7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts {is} the house of Israel, and the men
of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression;
for righteousness, but behold a cry.
5:8 Woe unto them that join house to house, {that} lay field to field, till
{there be} no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
5:9 In mine ears {said} the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be
desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
5:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer
shall yield an ephah.
5:11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, {that} they may follow
strong drink; that continue until night, {till} wine inflame them!
5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their
feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the
operation of his hands.
5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because {they have} no
knowledge: and their honourable men {are} famished, and their multitude dried
up with thirst.
5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without
measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that
rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
5:15 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be
humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
5:16 But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy
shall be sanctified in righteousness.
5:17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the
fat ones shall strangers eat.
5:18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were
with a cart rope:
5:19 That say, Let him make speed, {and} hasten his work, that we may see {it}:
and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may
know {it}!
5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for
light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
5:21 Woe unto {them that are} wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own
sight!
5:22 Woe unto {them that are} mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to
mingle strong drink:
5:23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of
the righteous from him!
5:24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the
chaff, {so} their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as
dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel.
5:25 Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath
stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did
tremble, and their carcases {were} torn in the midst of the streets. For all
this his anger is not turned away, but his hand {is} stretched out still.
5:26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto
them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed
swiftly:
5:27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep;
neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their
shoes be broken:
5:28 Whose arrows {are} sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs
shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:
5:29 Their roaring {shall be} like a lion, they shall roar like young lions:
yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry {it} away safe,
and none shall deliver {it}.
5:30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea:
and if {one} look unto the land, behold darkness {and} sorrow, and the light is
darkened in the heavens thereof.
6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a
throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
6:2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered
his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, {is} the Lord of
hosts: the whole earth {is} full of his glory.
6:4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the
house was filled with smoke.
6:5 Then said I, Woe {is} me! for I am undone; because I {am} a man of unclean
lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have
seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
6:6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand,
{which} he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
6:7 And he laid {it} upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips;
and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will
go for us? Then said I, Here {am} I; send me.
6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not;
and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut
their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and
understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
6:11 Then said I, Lord, how long? and he answered, Until the cities be wasted
without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly
desolate,
6:12 And the Lord have removed men far away, and {there be} a great forsaking
in the midst of the land.
6:13 But yet in it {shall be} a tenth, and {it} shall return, and shall be
eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance {is} in them, when they
cast {their leaves: so} the holy seed {shall be} the substance thereof.
7:1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of
Uzziah, king of Judah, {that} Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of
Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could
not prevail against it.
7:2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with
Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of
the wood are moved with the wind.
7:3 Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and
Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway
of the fuller's field;
7:4 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be
fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce
anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
7:5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel
against thee, saying,
7:6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein
for us, and set a king in the midst of it, {even} the son of Tabeal:
7:7 Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall It come to pass.
7:8 For the head of Syria {is} Damascus, and the head of Damascus {is} Rezin;
and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a
people.
7:9 And the head of Ephraim {is} Samaria, and the head of Samaria {is}
Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
7:10 Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
7:11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the
height above.
7:12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.
7:13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; {is it} a small thing for you
to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall
conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and
choose the good.
7:16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good,
the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
7:17 The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's
house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah;
{even} the king of Assyria.
7:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, {that} the Lord shall hiss for the
fly that {is} in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee
that {is} in the land of Assyria.
7:19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys,
and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
7:20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired, {namely},
by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the
feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
7:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, {that} a man shall nourish a young
cow, and two sheep;
7:22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk {that} they shall
give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left
in the land.
7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, {that} every place shall be, where
there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall {even} be for
briers and thorns.
7:24 With arrows and with bows shall {men} come thither; because all the land
shall become briers and thorns.
7:25 And {on} all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not
come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending
forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
8:1 Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it
with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
8:2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and
Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
8:3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then
said the Lord to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
8:4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother,
the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the
king of Assyria.
8:5 The Lord spake also unto me again, saying,
8:6 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and
rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
8:7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the
river, strong and many, {even} the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he
shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:
8:8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall
reach {even} to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the
breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
8:9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and
give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in
pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it
shall not stand: for God {is} with us.
8:11 For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I
should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
8:12 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all {them to} whom this people shall say, A
confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
8:13 Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and {let} him {be} your fear, and
{let} him {be} your dread.
8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a
rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.
8:15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared,
and be taken.
8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
8:17 And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of
Jacob, and I will look for him.
8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me {are} for signs and
for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar
spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek
unto their God? for the living to the dead?
8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word,
{it is} because {there is} no light in them.
8:21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall
come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and
curse their king and their God, and look upward.
8:22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness,
dimness of anguish; and {they shall be} driven to darkness.
9:1 Nevertheless the dimness {shall} not {be} such as {was} in her vexation,
when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of
Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her {by the} way of the
sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell
in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
9:3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, {and} not increased the joy: they joy
before thee according to the joy in harvest, {and} as {men} rejoice when they
divide the spoil.
9:4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder,
the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
9:5 For every battle of the warrior {is} with confused noise, and garments
rolled in blood; but {this} shall be with burning {and} fuel of fire.
9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government
shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller,
The mighty God, the everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
9:7 Of the increase of {his} government and peace {there shall be} no end, upon
the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it
with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the
Lord of hosts will perform this.
9:8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9:9 And all the people shall know, {even} Ephraim and the inhabitant of
Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
9:10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the
sycomores are cut down, but we will change {them into} cedars.
9:11 Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and
join his enemies together;
9:12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour
Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand
{is} stretched out still.
9:13 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they
seek the Lord of hosts.
9:14 Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and
rush, in one day.
9:15 The ancient and honourable, he {is} the head; and the prophet that
teacheth lies, he {is} the tail.
9:16 For the leaders of this people cause {them} to err; and {they that are}
led of them {are} destroyed.
9:17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall
have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one {is} an hypocrite and
an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his hand {is} stretched out still.
9:18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns,
and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up {like}
the lifting up of smoke.
9:19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the
people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
9:20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on
the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the
flesh of his own arm:
9:21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: {and} they together {shall be}
against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand {is}
stretched out still.
10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness
{which} they have prescribed;
10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the
poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and {that} they may rob the
fatherless!
10:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation
{which} shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye
leave your glory?
10:4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall
under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand {is}
stretched out still.
10:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine
indignation.
10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of
my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and
to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
10:7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but {it is} in
his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
10:8 For he saith, {Are} not my princes altogether kings?
10:9 {Is} not Calno as Carchemish? {is} not Hamath as Arpad? {is} not Samaria
as Damascus?
10:10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images
did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
10:11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to
Jerusalem and her idols?
10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, {that} when the Lord hath performed his
whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the
stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
10:13 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done {it}, and by my
wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have
robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant
{man}:
10:14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one
gathereth eggs {that are} left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was
none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
10:15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? {or} shall
the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake
{itself} against them that lift it up, {or} as if the staff should lift up
{itself, as if it were} no wood.
10:16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones
leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a
fire.
10:17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a
flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
10:18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field,
both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
10:19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may
write them.
10:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, {that} the remnant of Israel, and
such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him
that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in
truth.
10:21 The remnant shall return, {even} the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty
God.
10:22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, {yet} a remnant
of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with
righteousness.
10:23 For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in
the midst of all the land.
10:24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in
Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall
lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.
10:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine
anger in their destruction.
10:26 And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the
slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and {as} his rod {was} upon the sea,
so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, {that} his burden shall be taken
away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall
be destroyed because of the anointing.
10:28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up
his carriages:
10:29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba;
Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
10:30 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish,
O poor Anathoth.
10:31 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.
10:32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand {against}
the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
10:33 Behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and
the high ones of stature {shall be} hewn down, and the haughty shall be
humbled.
10:34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon
shall fall by a mighty one.
11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch
shall grow out of his roots:
11:2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of
the fear of the Lord;
11:3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he
shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing
of his ears:
11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity
for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his
mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the
girdle of his reins.
11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down
with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a
little child shall lead them.
11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down
together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned
child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth
shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an
ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be
glorious.
11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, {that} the Lord shall set his hand
again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be
left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from
Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the
outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four
corners of the earth.
11:13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall
be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
11:14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west;
they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom
and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
11:15 And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and
with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it
in the seven streams, and make {men} go over dryshod.
11:16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall
be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out
of the land of Egypt.
12:1 And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou
wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
12:2 Behold, God {is} my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the
Lord Jehovah {is} my strength and {my} song; he also is become my salvation.
12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
12:4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare
his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
12:5 Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this {is} known in
all the earth.
12:6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great {is} the Holy One of
Israel in the midst of thee.
13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
13:2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them,
shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for
mine anger, {even} them that rejoice in my highness.
13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a
tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of
hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
13:5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, {even} the Lord, and
the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
13:6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord {is} at hand; it shall come as a
destruction from the Almighty.
13:7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
13:8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they
shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at
another; their faces {shall be as} flames.
13:9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce
anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out
of it.
13:10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give
their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall
not cause her light to shine.
13:11 And I will punish the world for {their} evil, and the wicked for their
iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay
low the haughtiness of the terrible.
13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the
golden wedge of Ophir.
13:13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her
place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
13:14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up:
they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own
land.
13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is
joined {unto them} shall fall by the sword.
13:16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their
houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard
silver; and {as for} gold, they shall not delight in it.
13:18 {Their} bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have
no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees'
excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation
to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the
shepherds make their fold there.
13:21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be
full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance
there.
13:22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses,
and dragons in {their} pleasant palaces: and her time {is} near to come, and
her days shall not be prolonged.
14:1 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set
them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they
shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
14:2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the
house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and
handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and
they shall rule over their oppressors.
14:3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest
from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast
made to serve,
14:4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say,
How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
14:5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, {and} the sceptre of the
rulers.
14:6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled
the nations in anger, is persecuted, {and} none hindereth.
14:7 The whole earth is at rest, {and} is quiet: they break forth into singing.
14:8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, {and} the cedars of Lebanon, {saying},
Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
14:9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet {thee} at thy coming: it
stirreth up the dead for thee, {even} all the chief ones of the earth; it hath
raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
14:10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we?
art thou become like unto us?
14:11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, {and} the noise of thy viols: the
worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! {how} art
thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will
exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the north:
14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most
High.
14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
14:16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, {and} consider thee,
{saying, Is} this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake
kingdoms;
14:17 {That} made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof;
{that} opened not the house of his prisoners?
14:18 All the kings of the nations, {even} all of them, lie in glory, every one
in his own house.
14:19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, {and as}
the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down
to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
14:20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed
thy land, {and} slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be
renowned.
14:21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers;
that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world
with cities.
14:22 For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off
from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.
14:23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and
I will sweep it with the Besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
14:24 The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall
it come to pass; and as I have purposed, {so} shall it stand:
14:25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread
him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart
from off their shoulders.
14:26 This {is} the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this
{is} the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
14:27 For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul {it}? and his
hand {is} stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
14:28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
14:29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee
is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his
fruit {shall be} a fiery flying serpent.
14:30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in
safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, {art} dissolved: for
there shall come from the north a smoke, and none {shall be} alone in his
appointed times.
14:32 What shall {one} then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord
hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
15:1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, {and}
brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, {and}
brought to silence;
15:2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab
shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads {shall be} baldness,
{and} every beard cut off.
15:3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of
their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
15:4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard {even} unto
Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be
grievous unto him.
15:5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives {shall flee} unto Zoar, an
heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall
they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of
destruction.
15:6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away,
the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
15:7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid
up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
15:8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof
unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.
15:9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon
Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
16:1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness,
unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
16:2 For it shall be, {that}, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, {so}
the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
16:3 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst
of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
16:4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the
face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the
oppressors are consumed out of the land.
16:5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in
truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting
righteousness.
16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; {he is} very proud: {even} of his
haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: {but} his lies {shall} not {be} so.
16:7 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the
foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely {they are} stricken.
16:8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, {and} the vine of Sibmah: the lords of
the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come {even}
unto Jazer, they wandered {through} the wilderness: her branches are stretched
out, they are gone over the sea.
16:9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I
will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy
summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
16:10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in
the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the
treaders shall tread out no wine in {their} presses; I have made {their
vintage} shouting to cease.
16:11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward
parts for Kirharesh.
16:12 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high
place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.
16:13 This {is} the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning Moab since that
time.
16:14 But now the Lord hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of
an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great
multitude; and the remnant {shall be} very small {and} feeble.
17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from {being} a
city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
17:2 The cities of Aroer {are} forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall
lie down, and none shall make {them} afraid.
17:3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus,
and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel,
saith the Lord of hosts.
17:4 And in that day it shall come to pass, {that} the glory of Jacob shall be
made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
17:5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the
ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of
Rephaim.
17:6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree,
two {or} three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four {or} five in the
outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.
17:7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect
to the Holy One of Israel.
17:8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall
respect {that} which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
17:9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an
uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there
shall be desolation.
17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been
mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant
plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
17:11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt
thou make thy seed to flourish: {but} the harvest {shall be} a heap in the day
of grief and of desperate sorrow.
17:12 Woe to the multitude of many people, {which} make a noise like the noise
of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, {that} make a rushing like the
rushing of mighty waters!
17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but {God} shall
rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of
the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
17:14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; {and} before the morning he {is} not.
This {is} the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which {is} beyond the rivers of
Ethiopia:
18:2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the
waters, {saying}, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to
a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden
down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when
he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear
ye.
18:4 For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in
my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, {and} like a cloud of dew in
the heat of harvest.
18:5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is
ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks,
and take away {and} cut down the branches.
18:6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the
beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts
of the earth shall winter upon them.
18:7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a
people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning
hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have
spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.
19:1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall
come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the
heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
19:2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight
every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city
against city, {and} kingdom against kingdom.
19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will
destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the
charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
19:4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a
fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts.
19:5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and
dried up.
19:6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; {and} the brooks of defence shall
be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
19:7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing
sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no {more}.
19:8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks
shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
19:9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall
be confounded.
19:10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices
{and} ponds for fish.
19:11 Surely the princes of Zoan {are} fools, the counsel of the wise
counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I {am} the
son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
19:12 Where {are} they? where {are} thy wise {men}? and let them tell thee now,
and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
19:13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived;
they have also seduced Egypt, {even they that are} the stay of the tribes
thereof.
19:14 The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they
have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken {man} staggereth
in his vomit.
19:15 Neither shall there be {any} work for Egypt, which the head or tail,
branch or rush, may do.
19:16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and
fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shaketh
over it.
19:17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh
mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the Lord
of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
19:18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of
Canaan, and swear to the Lord of hosts; one shall be called, the city of
destruction.
19:19 In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land
of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in
the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors,
and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
19:21 And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the
Lord in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a
vow unto the Lord, and perform {it}.
19:22 And the Lord shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal {it}: and they
shall return {even} to the Lord, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall
heal them.
19:23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the
Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the
Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
19:24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, {even}
a blessing in the midst of the land:
19:25 Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed {be} Egypt my people,
and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
20:1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria
sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
20:2 At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and
loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And
he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
20:3 And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and
barefoot three {years} for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
20:4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the
Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with {their}
buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
20:5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of
Egypt their glory.
20:6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such {is}
our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of
Assyria: and how shall we escape?
21:1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass
through; {so} it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
21:2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth
treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all
the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as
the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing {of it};
I was dismayed at the seeing {of it}.
21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath
he turned into fear unto me.
21:5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes,
{and} anoint the shield.
21:6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare
what he seeth.
21:7 And he saw a chariot {with} a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses,
{and} a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
21:8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in
the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
21:9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, {with} a couple of horsemen.
And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven
images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
21:10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the
Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
21:11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the
night? Watchman, what of the night?
21:12 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will
inquire, inquire ye: return, come.
21:13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye
travelling companies of Dedanim.
21:14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was
thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
21:15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent
bow, and from the grievousness of war.
21:16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the
years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
21:17 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children
of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken {it}.
22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art
wholly gone up to the housetops?
22:2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain
{men are} not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
22:3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that
are found in thee are bound together, {which} have fled from far.
22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to
comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
22:5 For {it is} a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by
the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of
crying to the mountains.
22:6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men {and} horsemen, and Kir
uncovered the shield.
22:7 And it shall come to pass, {that} thy choicest valleys shall be full of
chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
22:8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day
to the armour of the house of the forest.
22:9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many:
and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
22:10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye
broken down to fortify the wall.
22:11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool:
but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him
that fashioned it long ago.
22:12 And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to
mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
22:13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating
flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
22:14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts, Surely this
iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord God of hosts.
22:15 Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer,
{even} unto Shebna, which {is} over the house, {and say},
22:16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee
out a sepulchre here, {as} he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, {and}
that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
22:17 Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will
surely cover thee.
22:18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee {like} a ball into a large
country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory {shall be}
the shame of thy lord's house.
22:19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull
thee down.
22:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
22:21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle,
and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22:22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he
shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
22:23 And I will fasten him {as} a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a
glorious throne to his father's house.
22:24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the
offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of
cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
22:25 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in
the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that {was}
upon it shall be cut off: for the Lord hath spoken {it}.
23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so
that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed
to them.
23:2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon,
that pass over the sea, have replenished.
23:3 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, {is} her
revenue; and she is a mart of nations.
23:4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, {even} the strength of
the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish
up young men, {nor} bring up virgins.
23:5 As at the report concerning Egypt, {so} shall they be sorely pained at the
report of Tyre.
23:6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
23:7 {Is} this your joyous {city}, whose antiquity {is} of ancient days? her
own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
23:8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning {city}, whose
merchants {are} princes, whose traffickers {are} the honourable of the earth?
23:9 The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, {and}
to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
23:10 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: {there is} no
more strength.
23:11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord
hath given a commandment against the merchant {city}, to destroy the strong
holds thereof.
23:12 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin,
daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no
rest.
23:13 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, {till} the
Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the
towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; {and} he brought it to
ruin.
23:14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
23:15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten
seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy
years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
23:16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten;
make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
23:17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the Lord
will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication
with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
23:18 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall
not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell
before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
24:1 Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth
it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
24:2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the
servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with
the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as
with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
24:3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath
spoken this word.
24:4 The earth mourneth {and} fadeth away, the world languisheth {and} fadeth
away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have
transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein
are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men
left.
24:7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
24:8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the
joy of the harp ceaseth.
24:9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to
them that drink it.
24:10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man
may come in.
24:11 {There is} a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the
mirth of the land is gone.
24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
24:13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, {there
shall be} as the shaking of an olive tree, {and} as the gleaning grapes when
the vintage is done.
24:14 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the
Lord, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
24:15 Wherefore glorify ye the Lord in the fires, {even} the name of the Lord
God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, {even} glory to
the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the
treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have
dealt very treacherously.
24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, {are} upon thee, O inhabitant of the
earth.
24:18 And it shall come to pass, {that} he who fleeth from the noise of the
fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit
shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the
foundations of the earth do shake.
24:19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth
is moved exceedingly.
24:20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed
like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it
shall fall, and not rise again.
24:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, {that} the Lord shall punish the
host of the high ones {that are} on high, and the kings of the earth upon the
earth.
24:22 And they shall be gathered together, {as} prisoners are gathered in the
pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be
visited.
24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of
hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients
gloriously.
25:1 O Lord, thou {art} my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for
thou hast done wonderful {things; thy} counsels of old {are} faithfulness {and}
truth.
25:2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; {of} a defenced city a ruin: a
palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
25:3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible
nations shall fear thee.
25:4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his
distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of
the terrible ones {is} as a storm {against} the wall.
25:5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place;
{even} the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones
shall be brought low.
25:6 And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast
of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of
wines on the lees well refined.
25:7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over
all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears
from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off
all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken {it}.
25:9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this {is} our God; we have waited
for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will
be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
25:10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be
trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
25:11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that
swimmeth spreadeth forth {his hands} to swim: and he shall bring down their
pride together with the spoils of their hands.
25:12 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay
low, {and} bring to the ground, {even} to the dust.
26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong
city; salvation will {God} appoint {for} walls and bulwarks.
26:2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may
enter in.
26:3 Thou wilt keep {him} in perfect peace, {whose} mind {is} stayed {on thee}:
because he trusteth in thee.
26:4 Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah {is} everlasting
strength:
26:5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it
low; he layeth it low, {even} to the ground; he bringeth it {even} to the dust.
26:6 The foot shall tread it down, {even} the feet of the poor, {and} the steps
of the needy.
26:7 The way of the just {is} uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the
path of the just.
26:8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the
desire of {our} soul Is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within
me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments {are} in the earth, the
inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
26:10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, {yet} will he not learn
righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not
behold the majesty of the Lord.
26:11 Lord, {when} thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: {but} they shall
see, and be ashamed for {their} envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine
enemies shall devour them.
26:12 Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our
works in us.
26:13 O Lord our God, {other} lords beside thee have had dominion over us:
{but} by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
26:14 {They are} dead, they shall not live; {they are} deceased, they shall not
rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory
to perish.
26:15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation:
thou art glorified: thou hadst removed {it} far {unto} all the ends of the
earth.
26:16 Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer {when}
thy chastening {was} upon them.
26:17 Like as a woman with child, {that} draweth near the time of her delivery,
is in pain, {and} crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O
Lord.
26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought
forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the
inhabitants of the world fallen.
26:19 Thy dead {men} shall live, {together with} my dead body shall they arise.
Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew {is as} the dew of herbs,
and the earth shall cast out the dead.
26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about
thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be
overpast.
26:21 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants
of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and
shall no more cover her slain.
27:1 In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish
leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he
shall slay the dragon that {is} in the sea.
27:2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
27:3 I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest {any} hurt it, I
will keep it night and day.
27:4 Fury {is} not in me: who would set the briers {and} thorns against me in
battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
27:5 Or let him take hold of my strength, {that} he may make peace with me;
{and} he shall make peace with me.
27:6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom
and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
27:7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? {or} is he slain
according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
27:8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth
his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
27:9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this {is} all
the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as
chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand
up.
27:10 Yet the defenced city {shall be} desolate, {and} the habitation forsaken,
and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie
down, and consume the branches thereof.
27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women
come, {and} set them on fire: for it {is} a people of no understanding:
therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed
them will shew them no favour.
27:12 And it shall come to pass in that day, {that} the Lord shall beat off
from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be
gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, {that} the great trumpet shall be
blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria,
and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy
mount at Jerusalem.
28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious
beauty {is} a fading flower, which {are} on the head of the fat valleys of them
that are overcome with wine!
28:2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, {which} as a tempest of
hail {and} a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall
cast down to the earth with the hand.
28:3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
28:4 And the glorious beauty, which {is} on the head of the fat valley, shall
be a fading flower, {and} as the hasty fruit before the summer; which {when} he
that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
28:5 In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a
diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
28:6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for
strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of
the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are
swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in
vision, they stumble {in} judgment.
28:8 For all tables are full of vomit {and} filthiness, {so that there is} no
place {clean}.
28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand
doctrine? {them that are} weaned from the milk, {and} drawn from the breasts.
28:10 For precept {must be} upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line,
line upon line; here a little, {and} there a little:
28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
28:12 To whom he said, This {is} the rest {wherewith} ye may cause the weary to
rest; and this {is} the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
28:13 But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon
precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, {and} there a little;
that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this
people which {is} in Jerusalem.
28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell
are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall
not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we
hid ourselves:
28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation
a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner {stone}, a sure foundation: he that
believeth shall not make haste.
28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet:
and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow
the hiding place.
28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement
with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
then ye shall be trodden down by it.
28:19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by
morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation
only {to} understand the report.
28:20 For the bed is shorter than that {a man} can stretch himself {on it}: and
the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself {in it}.
28:21 For the Lord shall rise up as {in} mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as
{in} the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring
to pass his act, his strange act.
28:22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I
have heard from the Lord God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the
whole earth.
28:23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
28:24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of
his ground?
28:25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the
fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the
appointed barley and the rie in their place?
28:26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, {and} doth teach him.
28:27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is
a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with
a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
28:28 Bread {corn} is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor
break {it with} the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it {with} his horsemen.
28:29 This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, {which} is wonderful in
counsel, {and} excellent in working.
29:1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city {where} David dwelt! add ye year to year;
let them kill sacrifices.
29:2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it
shall be unto me as Ariel.
29:3 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee
with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
29:4 And thou shalt be brought down, {and} shalt speak out of the ground, and
thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that
hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of
the dust.
29:5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the
multitude of the terrible ones {shall be} as chaff that passeth away: yea, it
shall be at an instant suddenly.
29:6 Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with
earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring
fire.
29:7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all
that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a
dream of a night vision.
29:8 It shall even be as when an hungry {man} dreameth, and, behold, he eateth;
but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and,
behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he {is faint}, and his soul
hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against
mount Zion.
29:9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but
not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
29:10 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath
closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is
sealed, which {men} deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray
thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it {is} sealed:
29:12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this,
I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
29:13 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near {me} with
their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far
from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
29:14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this
people, {even} a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise
{men} shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent {men} shall be hid.
29:15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and
their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
29:16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the
potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or
shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
29:17 {Is} it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a
fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
29:18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes
of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
29:19 The meek also shall increase {their} joy in the Lord, and the poor among
men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
29:20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed,
and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
29:21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that
reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
29:22 Therefore thus saith the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house
of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
29:23 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of
him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall
fear the God of Israel.
29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that
murmured shall learn doctrine.
30:1 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not
of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add
sin to sin:
30:2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to
strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of
Egypt!
30:3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in
the shadow of Egypt {your} confusion.
30:4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
30:5 They were all ashamed of a people {that} could not profit them, nor be an
help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
30:6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and
anguish, from whence {come} the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying
serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and
their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people {that} shall not profit
{them}.
30:7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I
cried concerning this, Their strength {is} to sit still.
30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it
may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
30:9 That this {is} a rebellious people, lying children, children {that} will
not hear the law of the Lord:
30:10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto
us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
30:11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of
Israel to cease from before us.
30:12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this
word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall,
swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
30:14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is
broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the
bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water {withal}
out of the pit.
30:15 For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and
rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength:
and ye would not.
30:16 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee:
and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be
swift.
30:17 One thousand {shall flee} at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five
shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as
an ensign on an hill.
30:18 And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and
therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord
{is} a God of judgment: blessed {are} all they that wait for him.
30:19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more:
he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear
it, he will answer thee.
30:20 And {though} the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of
affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but
thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
30:21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This {is} the way,
walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
30:22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the
ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a
menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
30:23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground
withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and
plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
30:24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean
provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill,
rivers {and} streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the
towers fall.
30:26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the
light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day
that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of
their wound.
30:27 Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning {with} his anger,
and the burden {thereof is} heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his
tongue as a devouring fire:
30:28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the
neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and {there shall be} a
bridle in the jaws of the people, causing {them} to err.
30:29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night {when} a holy solemnity is kept;
and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain
of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel.
30:30 And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew
the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of {his} anger, and {with}
the flame of a devouring fire, {with} scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
30:31 For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down,
{which} smote with a rod.
30:32 And {in} every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord
shall lay upon him, {it} shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of
shaking will he fight with it.
30:33 For Tophet {is} ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he
hath made {it} deep {and} large: the pile thereof {is} fire and much wood; the
breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust
in chariots, because {they are} many; and in horsemen, because they are very
strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord!
31:2 Yet he also {is} wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his
words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help
of them that work iniquity.
31:3 Now the Egyptians {are} men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not
spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall
fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
31:4 For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion
roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him,
{he} will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of
them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the
hill thereof.
31:5 As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending
also he will deliver {it; and} passing over he will preserve {it}.
31:6 Turn ye unto {him from} whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
31:7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his
idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you {for} a sin.
31:8 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the
sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword,
and his young men shall be discomfited.
31:9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall
be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, whose fire {is} in Zion, and his
furnace in Jerusalem.
32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in
judgment.
32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the
tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a
weary land.
32:3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that
hear shall hearken.
32:4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of
the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said {to
be} bountiful.
32:6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity,
to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the
soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
32:7 The instruments also of the churl {are} evil: he deviseth wicked devices
to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he
stand.
32:9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters;
give ear unto my speech.
32:10 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the
vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
32:11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip
you, and make you bare, and gird {sackcloth} upon {your} loins.
32:12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the
fruitful vine.
32:13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns {and} briers; yea, upon
all the houses of joy {in} the joyous city:
32:14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be
left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a
pasture of flocks;
32:15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a
fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
32:16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in
the fruitful field.
32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of
righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
32:18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure
dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
32:19 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low
in a low place.
32:20 Blessed {are} ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth {thither}
the feet of the ox and the ass.
33:1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou {wast} not spoiled; and dealest
treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt
cease to spoil, thou shalt be {spoiled}; and when thou shalt make an end to
deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
33:2 O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm
every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
33:3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself
the nations were scattered.
33:4 And your spoil shall be gathered {like} the gathering of the caterpiller:
as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
33:5 The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with
judgment and righteousness.
33:6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, {and}
strength of salvation: the fear of the Lord {is} his treasure.
33:7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace
shall weep bitterly.
33:8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the
covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
33:9 The earth mourneth {and} languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed {and} hewn down:
Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off {their fruits}.
33:10 Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift
up myself.
33:11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, {as}
fire, shall devour you.
33:12 And the people shall be {as} the burnings of lime: {as} thorns cut up
shall they be burned in the fire.
33:13 Hear, ye {that are} far off, what I have done; and, ye {that are} near,
acknowledge my might.
33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the
hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us
shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
33:15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth
the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that
stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing
evil;
33:16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence {shall be} the munitions of
rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters {shall be} sure.
33:17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land
that is very far off.
33:18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where {is} the scribe? where {is} the
receiver? where {is} he that counted the towers?
33:19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou
canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, {that thou canst} not understand.
33:20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see
Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle {that} shall not be taken down; not
one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords
thereof be broken.
33:21 But there the glorious Lord {will be} unto us a place of broad rivers
{and} streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship
pass thereby.
33:22 For the Lord {is} our judge, the Lord {is} our lawgiver, the Lord {is}
our king; he will save us.
33:23 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they
could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame
take the prey.
33:24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell
therein {shall be} forgiven {their} iniquity.
34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth
hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
34:2 For the indignation of the Lord {is} upon all nations, and {his} fury upon
all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the
slaughter.
34:3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of
their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be
rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf
falleth off from the vine, and as a falling {fig} from the fig tree.
34:5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon
Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
34:6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness,
{and} with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams:
for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of
Idumea.
34:7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the
bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with
fatness.
34:8 For {it is} the day of the Lord's vengeance, {and} the year of recompences
for the controversy of Zion.
34:9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof
into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for
ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through
it for ever and ever.
34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the
raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of
confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
34:12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none {shall be}
there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the
fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, {and} a court for
owls.
34:14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the
island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest
there, and find for herself a place of rest.
34:15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather
under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her
mate.
34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall
fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit
it hath gathered them.
34:17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them
by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall
they dwell therein.
35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the
desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the
glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon,
they shall see the glory of the Lord, {and} the excellency of our God.
35:3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
35:4 Say to them {that are} of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold,
your God will come {with} vengeance, {even} God {with} a recompence; he will
come and save you.
35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall
be unstopped.
35:6 Then shall the lame {man} leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb
sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
35:7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs
of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, {shall be} grass with
reeds and rushes.
35:8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way
of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it {shall be} for those:
the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err {therein}.
35:9 No lion shall be there, nor {any} ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it
shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk {there}:
35:10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs
and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and
sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
36:1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, {that}
Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah,
and took them.
36:2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king
Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in
the highway of the fuller's field.
36:3 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
36:4 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great
king, the king of Assyria, What confidence {is} this wherein thou trustest?
36:5 I say, {sayest thou}, (but {they are but} vain words) {I have} counsel and
strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
36:6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a
man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it so {is} Pharaoh king of Egypt
to all that trust in him.
36:7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the Lord our God: {is it} not he, whose
high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to
Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
36:8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria,
and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set
riders upon them.
36:9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my
master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
36:10 And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it?
the Lord said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
36:11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee,
unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand {it}: and speak not
to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that {are} on the wall.
36:12 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to
speak these words? {hath he} not {sent me} to the men that sit upon the wall,
that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
36:13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language,
and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
36:14 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be
able to deliver you.
36:15 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will
surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king
of Assyria.
36:16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make {an
agreement} with me {by} a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of
his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of
his own cistern;
36:17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of
corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
36:18 {Beware} lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The Lord will deliver us.
Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the
king of Assyria?
36:19 Where {are} the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where {are} the gods of
Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
36:20 Who {are they} among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered
their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my
hand?
36:21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's
commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
36:22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that {was} over the household, and
Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with
{their} clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
37:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard {it}, that he rent his
clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the
Lord.
37:2 And he sent Eliakim, who {was} over the household, and Shebna the scribe,
and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz.
37:3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day {is} a day of
trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the
birth, and {there is} not strength to bring forth.
37:4 It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king
of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove
the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up {thy} prayer for
the remnant that is left.
37:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
37:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith
the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the
servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
37:7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and
return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own
land.
37:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against
Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
37:9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to
make war with thee. And when he heard {it}, he sent messengers to Hezekiah,
saying,
37:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God,
in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into
the hand of the king of Assyria.
37:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands
by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have
destroyed, {as} Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which
{were} in Telassar?
37:13 Where {is} the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of
the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
37:14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and
read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the Lord, and spread it before
the Lord.
37:15 And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord, saying,
37:16 O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest {between} the Cherubims,
thou {art} the God, {even} thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou
hast made heaven and earth.
37:17 Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear; open thine eyes, O Lord, and see:
and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living
God.
37:18 Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations,
and their countries,
37:19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they {were} no gods, but the
work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
37:20 Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the
kingdoms of the earth may know that thou {art} the Lord, {even} thou only.
37:21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the
Lord God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of
Assyria:
37:22 This {is} the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin,
the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, {and} laughed thee to scorn; the
daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
37:23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou
exalted {thy} voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? {even} against the Holy
One of Israel.
37:24 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the
multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the
sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, {and} the choice
fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, {and} the
forest of his Carmel.
37:25 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried
up all the rivers of the besieged places.
37:26 Hast thou not heard long ago, {how} I have done it; {and} of ancient
times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou
shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities {into} ruinous heaps.
37:27 Therefore their inhabitants {were} of small power, they were dismayed and
confounded: they were {as} the grass of the field, and {as} the green herb,
{as} the grass on the housetops, and {as corn} blasted before it be grown up.
37:28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage
against me.
37:29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears,
therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will
turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
37:30 And this {shall be} a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat {this} year such as
groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in
the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit
thereof.
37:31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take
root downward, and bear fruit upward:
37:32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out
of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
37:33 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall
not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with
shields, nor cast a bank against it.
37:34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come
into this city, saith the Lord.
37:35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my
servant David's sake.
37:36 Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the
Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early
in the morning, behold, they {were} all dead corpses.
37:37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt
at Nineveh.
37:38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his
god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they
escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
38:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son
of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house
in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord,
38:3 And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before
thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done {that which is} good in
thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
38:4 Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,
38:5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father,
I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy
days fifteen years.
38:6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of
Assyria: and I will defend this city.
38:7 And this {shall be} a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do
this thing that he hath spoken;
38:8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down
in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees,
by which degrees it was gone down.
38:9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was
recovered of his sickness:
38:10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the
grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
38:11 I said, I shall not see the Lord, {even} the Lord, in the land of the
living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
38:12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have
cut off like a Weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from
day {even} to night wilt thou make an end of me.
38:13 I reckoned till morning, {that}, as a lion, so will he break all my
bones: from day {even} to night wilt thou make an end of me.
38:14 Like a crane {or} a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove:
mine eyes fail {with looking} upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
38:15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done
{it}: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
38:16 O Lord, by these {things men} live, and in all these {things is} the life
of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my
soul {delivered it} from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins
behind thy back.
38:18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can {not} celebrate thee: they
that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I {do} this day: the
father to the children shall make known thy truth.
38:20 The Lord {was ready} to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the
stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.
38:21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay {it} for a
plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
38:22 Hezekiah also had said, What {is} the sign that I shall go up to the
house of the Lord?
39:1 At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent
letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and
was recovered.
39:2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious
things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment,
and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there
was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them
not.
39:3 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What
said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They
are come from a far country unto me, {even} from Babylon.
39:4 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered,
All that {is} in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures
that I have not shewed them.
39:5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts:
39:6 Behold, the days come, that all that {is} in thine house, and {that} which
thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon:
nothing shall be left, saith the Lord.
39:7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall
they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
39:8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good {is} the word of the Lord which thou
hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.
40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is
accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the
Lord's hand double for all her sins.
40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the
Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made
low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
40:5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see {it}
together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken {it}.
40:6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh {is} grass,
and all the goodliness thereof {is} as the flower of the field:
40:7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord
bloweth upon it: surely the people {is} grass.
40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall
stand for ever.
40:9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O
Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift
{it} up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
40:10 Behold, the Lord God will come with strong {hand}, and his arm shall rule
for him: behold, his reward {is} with him, and his work before him.
40:11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with
his arm, and carry {them} in his bosom, {and} shall gently lead those that are
with young.
40:12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out
heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and
weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
40:13 Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord, or {being} his counseller hath
taught him?
40:14 With whom took he counsel, and {who} instructed him, and taught him in
the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of
understanding?
40:15 Behold, the nations {are} as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the
small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little
thing.
40:16 And Lebanon {is} not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof
sufficient for a burnt offering.
40:17 All nations before him {are} as nothing; and they are counted to him less
than nothing, and vanity.
40:18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto
him?
40:19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over
with gold, and casteth silver chains.
40:20 He that {is} so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree
{that} will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven
image, {that} shall not be moved.
40:21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the
beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
40:22 {It is} he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants
thereof {are} as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain,
and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
40:23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth
as vanity.
40:24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their
stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and
they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these {things},
that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the
greatness of his might, for that {he is} strong in power; not one faileth.
40:27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the
Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, {that} the everlasting God, the
Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?
{there is} no searching of his understanding.
40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to {them that have} no might he
increaseth strength.
40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly
fall:
40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew {their} strength; they shall
mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; {and} they
shall walk, and not faint.
41:1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew {their}
strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to
judgment.
41:2 Who raised up the righteous {man} from the east, called him to his foot,
gave the nations before him, and made {him} rule over kings? he gave {them} as
the dust to his sword, {and} as driven stubble to his bow.
41:3 He pursued them, {and} passed safely; {even} by the way {that} he had not
gone with his feet.
41:4 Who hath wrought and done {it}, calling the generations from the
beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the last; I {am} he.
41:5 The isles saw {it}, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew
near, and came.
41:6 They helped every one his neighbour; and {every one} said to his brother,
Be of good courage.
41:7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, {and} he that smootheth {with}
the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It {is} ready for the sodering:
and he fastened it with nails, {that} it should not be moved.
41:8 But thou, Israel, {art} my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of
Abraham my friend.
41:9 {Thou} whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from
the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou {art} my servant; I have chosen
thee, and not cast thee away.
41:10 Fear thou not; for I {am} with thee: be not dismayed; for I {am} thy God:
I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the
right hand of my righteousness.
41:11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and
confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall
perish.
41:12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, {even} them that contended
with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of
nought.
41:13 For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear
not; I will help thee.
41:14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, {and} ye men of Israel; I will help thee,
saith the Lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
41:15 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth:
thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat {them} small, and shalt make the
hills as chaff.
41:16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the
whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, {and} shalt
glory in the Holy One of Israel.
41:17 {When} the poor and needy seek water, and {there is} none, {and} their
tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, {I} the God of Israel
will not forsake them.
41:18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the
valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs
of water.
41:19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the
myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, {and} the
pine, and the box tree together:
41:20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that
the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created
it.
41:21 Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong {reasons},
saith the King of Jacob.
41:22 Let them bring {them} forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew
the former things, what they {be}, that we may consider them, and know the
latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
41:23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye
{are} gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold {it}
together.
41:24 Behold, ye {are} of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination {is
he that} chooseth you.
41:25 I have raised up {one} from the north, and he shall come: from the rising
of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as {upon}
morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
41:26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime,
that we may say, {He is} righteous? yea, {there is} none that sheweth, yea,
{there is} none that declareth, yea, {there is} none that heareth your words.
41:27 The first {shall say} to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to
Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
41:28 For I beheld, and {there was} no man; even among them, and {there was} no
counseller, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
41:29 Behold, they {are} all vanity; their works {are} nothing: their molten
images {are} wind and confusion.
42:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, {in whom} my soul
delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the
Gentiles.
42:2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the
street.
42:3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not
quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
42:4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the
earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
42:5 Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them
out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that
giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
42:6 I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand,
and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of
the Gentiles;
42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, {and}
them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
42:8 I {am} the Lord: that {is} my name: and my glory will I not give to
another, neither my praise to graven images.
42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare:
before they spring forth I tell you of them.
42:10 Sing unto the Lord a new song, {and} his praise from the end of the
earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the
inhabitants thereof.
42:11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up {their voice}, the
villages {that} Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let
them shout from the top of the mountains.
42:12 Let them give glory unto the Lord, and declare his praise in the islands.
42:13 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a
man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
42:14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, {and} refrained
myself: {now} will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at
once.
42:15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I
will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way {that} they knew not; I will lead
them in paths {that} they have not known: I will make darkness light before
them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not
forsake them.
42:17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in
graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye {are} our gods.
42:18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
42:19 Who {is} blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger {that} I sent?
who {is} blind as {he that is} perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant?
42:20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he
heareth not.
42:21 The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the
law, and make {it} honourable.
42:22 But this {is} a people robbed and spoiled; {they are} all of them snared
in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none
delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
42:23 Who among you will give ear to this? {who} will hearken and hear for the
time to come?
42:24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord,
he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither
were they obedient unto his law.
42:25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength
of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it
burned him, yet he laid {it} not to heart.
43:1 But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed
thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called {thee} by thy
name; thou {art} mine.
43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I {will be} with thee; and through
the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire,
thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
43:3 For I {am} the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave
Egypt {for} thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
43:4 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I
have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
43:5 Fear not: for I {am} with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and
gather thee from the west;
43:6 I will say to the north, give up; and to the south, keep not back: bring
my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
43:7 {Even} every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my
glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
43:8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
43:9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled:
who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring
forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say,
{It is} truth.
43:10 Ye {are} my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen:
that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I {am} he: before me there
was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
43:11 I, {even} I, {am} the Lord; and beside me {there is} no saviour.
43:12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when {there was} no
strange {god} among you: therefore ye {are} my witnesses, saith the Lord, that
I {am} God.
43:13 Yea, before the day {was} I {am} he; and {there is} none that can deliver
out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
43:14 Thus saith the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake
I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the
Chaldeans, whose cry {is} in the ships.
43:15 I {am} the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
43:16 Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the
mighty waters;
43:17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they
shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are
quenched as tow.
43:18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not
know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, {and} rivers in the desert.
43:20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because
I give waters in the wilderness, {and} rivers in the desert, to give drink to
my people, my chosen.
43:21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
43:22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of
me, O Israel.
43:23 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither
hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with
an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
43:24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me
with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins,
thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
43:25 I, {even} I, {am} he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own
sake, and will not remember thy sins.
43:26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou
mayest be justified.
43:27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against
me.
43:28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given
Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
44:1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
44:2 Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, {which}
will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have
chosen.
44:3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry
ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine
offspring:
44:4 And they shall spring up {as} among the grass, as willows by the water
courses.
44:5 One shall say, I {am} the Lord's; and another shall call {himself} by the
name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe {with} his hand unto the Lord, and
surname {himself} by the name of Israel.
44:6 Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of
hosts; I {am} the first, and I {am} the last; and beside me {there is} no God.
44:7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for
me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and
shall come, let them shew unto them.
44:8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and
have declared {it}? ye {are} even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea,
{there is} no God; I know not {any}.
44:9 They that make a graven image {are} all of them vanity; and their
delectable things shall not profit; and they {are} their own witnesses; they
see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
44:10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image {that} is profitable for
nothing?
44:11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they {are} of
men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; {yet} they shall
fear, {and} they shall be ashamed together.
44:12 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it
with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry,
and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
44:13 The carpenter stretcheth out {his} rule; he marketh it out with a line;
he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh
it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may
remain in the house.
44:14 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he
strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash,
and the rain doth nourish {it}.
44:15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm
himself; yea, he kindleth {it}, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and
worshippeth {it}; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
44:16 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh;
he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth {himself}, and saith, Aha,
I am warm, I have seen the fire:
44:17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, {even} his graven image: he
falleth down unto it, and worshippeth {it}, and prayeth unto it, and saith,
Deliver me; for thou {art} my god.
44:18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that
they cannot see; {and} their hearts, that they cannot understand.
44:19 And none considereth in his heart, neither {is there} knowledge nor
understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have
baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten {it}: and
shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock
of a tree?
44:20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he
cannot deliver his soul, nor say, {Is there} not a lie in my right hand?
44:21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou {art} my servant: I have
formed thee; thou {art} my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of
me.
44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a
cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
44:23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done {it}: shout, ye lower parts of
the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree
therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
44:24 Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb,
I {am} the Lord that maketh all {things}; that stretcheth forth the heavens
alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
44:25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that
turneth wise {men} backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
44:26 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of
his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the
cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places
thereof:
44:27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
44:28 That saith of Cyrus, {He is} my shepherd, and shall perform all my
pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy
foundation shall be laid.
45:1 Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have
holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to
open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
45:2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break
in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
45:3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of
secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call {thee} by thy
name, {am} the God of Israel.
45:4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called
thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
45:5 I {am} the Lord, and {there is} none else, {there is} no God beside me: I
girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that
{there is} none beside me. I {am} the Lord, and {there is} none else.
45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I
the Lord do all these {things}.
45:8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down
righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let
righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.
45:9 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! {Let} the potsherd {strive}
with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it,
What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
45:10 Woe unto him that saith unto {his} father, What begettest thou? or to the
woman, What hast thou brought forth?
45:11 Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of
things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command
ye me.
45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, {even} my hands, have
stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
45:13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he
shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward,
saith the Lord of hosts.
45:14 Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and
of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be
thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they
shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, {saying},
Surely God {is} in thee; and {there is} none else, {there is} no God.
45:15 Verily thou {art} a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the
Saviour.
45:16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to
confusion together {that are} makers of idols.
45:17 {But} Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye
shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
45:18 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed
the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he
formed it to be inhabited: I {am} the Lord; and {there is} none else.
45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not
unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I
declare things that are right.
45:20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye {that are} escaped
of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven
image, and pray unto a god {that} cannot save.
45:21 Tell ye, and bring {them} near; yea, let them take counsel together: who
hath declared this from ancient time? {who} hath told it from that time? {have}
not I the Lord? and {there is} no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour;
{there is} none beside me.
45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I {am} God,
and {there is} none else.
45:23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth {in}
righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every
tongue shall swear.
45:24 Surely, shall {one} say, In the Lord have I righteousness and strength:
{even} to him shall {men} come; and all that are incensed against him shall be
ashamed.
45:25 In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
46:1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon
the cattle: your carriages {were} heavy loaden; {they are} a burden to the
weary {beast}.
46:2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but
themselves are gone into captivity.
46:3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of
Israel, which are borne {by me} from the belly, which are carried from the
womb:
46:4 And {even} to {your} old age I {am} he; and {even} to hoar hairs will I
carry {you}: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver
{you}.
46:5 To whom will ye liken me, and make {me} equal, and compare me, that we may
be like?
46:6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and and weigh silver in the balance {and}
hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
46:7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place,
and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, {one} shall cry unto
him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
46:8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring {it} again to mind, O ye
transgressors.
46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I {am} God, and {there is} none
else; {I am} God, and {there is} none like me,
46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times {the things}
that are not {yet} done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my
pleasure:
46:11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel
from a far country: yea, I have spoken {it}, I will also bring it to pass; I
have purposed {it}, I will also do it.
46:12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that {are} far from righteousness:
46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation
shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the
ground: {there is} no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no
more be called tender and delicate.
47:2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg,
uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
47:3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will
take vengeance, and I will not meet {thee as} a man.
47:4 {As for} our redeemer, the Lord of hosts {is} his name, the Holy One of
Israel.
47:5 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans:
for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
47:6 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given
them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou
very heavily laid thy yoke.
47:7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: {so} that thou didst not lay
these {things} to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.
47:8 Therefore hear now this, {thou that art} given to pleasures, that dwellest
carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I {am}, and none else beside me; I
shall not sit {as} a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
47:9 But these two {things} shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss
of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for
the multitude of thy sorceries, {and} for the great abundance of thine
enchantments.
47:10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me.
Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in
thine heart, I {am}, and none else beside me.
47:11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it
riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it
off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, {which} thou shalt not know.
47:12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy
sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be
able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
47:13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the
astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save
thee from {these things} that shall come upon thee.
47:14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall
not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: {there shall} not {be} a coal
to warm at, {nor} fire to sit before it.
47:15 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, {even} thy
merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none
shall save thee.
48:1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel,
and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the
Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, {but} not in truth, nor in
righteousness.
48:2 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the
God of Israel; the Lord of hosts {is} his name.
48:3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth
out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did {them} suddenly, and they came to
pass.
48:4 Because I knew that thou {art} obstinate, and thy neck {is} an iron sinew,
and thy brow brass;
48:5 I have even from the beginning declared {it} to thee; before it came to
pass I shewed {it} thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and
my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
48:6 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare {it}? I have shewed
thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know
them.
48:7 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when
thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
48:8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time {that}
thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very
treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
48:9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I
refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in
the furnace of affliction.
48:11 For mine own sake, {even} for mine own sake, will I do {it}: for how
should {my name} be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
48:12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I {am} he; I {am} the
first, I also {am} the last.
48:13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand
hath spanned the heavens: {when} I call unto them, they stand up together.
48:14 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared
these {things}? the Lord hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon,
and his arm {shall be on} the Chaldeans.
48:15 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and
he shall make his way prosperous.
48:16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the
beginning; from the time that it was, there {am} I: and now the Lord God, and
his spirit, hath sent me.
48:17 Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I {am} the
Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way
{that} thou shouldest go.
48:18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been
as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
48:19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like
the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from
before me.
48:20 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of
singing declare ye, tell this, utter it {even} to the end of the earth; say ye,
The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
48:21 And they thirsted not {when} he led them through the deserts: he caused
the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the
waters gushed out.
48:22 {There is} no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.
49:1 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath
called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of
my name.
49:2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand
hath he hid me, and made me a Polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
49:3 And said unto me, Thou {art} my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be
glorified.
49:4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought,
and in vain: {yet} surely my judgment {is} with the Lord, and my work with my
God.
49:5 And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb {to be} his servant,
to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be
glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
49:6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to
raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will
also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation
unto the end of the earth.
49:7 Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, {and} his Holy One, to him
whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers,
Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that
is faithful, {and} the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
49:8 Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day
of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a
covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the
desolate heritages;
49:9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that {are} in
darkness, shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures
{shall be} in all high places.
49:10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite
them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of
water shall he guide them.
49:11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
49:12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from
the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
49:13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O
mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his
afflicted.
49:14 But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion
on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of {my} hands; thy walls {are}
continually before me.
49:17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee
waste shall go forth of thee.
49:18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves
together, {and} come to thee. {As} I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely
clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them {on thee}, as a
bride {doeth}.
49:19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction,
shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that
swallowed thee up shall be far away.
49:20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall
say again in thine ears, The place {is} too strait for me: give place to me
that I may dwell.
49:21 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I
have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and
who hath brought up these? behold, I was left alone; these, where {had} they
{been}?
49:22 Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the
Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons
in {their} arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon {their} shoulders.
49:23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing
mothers: they shall bow down to thee with {their} face toward the earth, and
lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I {am} the Lord: for
they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
49:24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
49:25 But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken
away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with
him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
49:26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they
shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall
know that I the Lord {am} thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of
Jacob.
50:1 Thus saith the Lord, Where {is} the bill of your mother's divorcement,
whom I have put away? or which of my creditors {is it} to whom I have sold you?
behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your
transgressions is your mother put away.
50:2 Wherefore, when I came, {was there} no man? when I called, {was there}
none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I
no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a
wilderness: their fish stinketh, because {there is} no water, and dieth for
thirst.
50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
50:4 The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know
how to speak a word in season to {him that is} weary: he wakeneth morning by
morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
50:5 The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither
turned away back.
50:6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the
hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
50:7 For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded:
therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be
ashamed.
50:8 {He is} near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand
together: who {is} mine adversary? let him come near to me.
50:9 Behold, the Lord God will help me; who {is} he {that} shall condemn me?
lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
50:10 Who {is} among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his
servant, that walketh {in} darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the
name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
50:11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass {yourselves} about with
sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks {that} ye have
kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
51:1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord:
look unto the rock {whence} ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit {whence} ye
are digged.
51:2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah {that} bare you: for I
called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
51:3 For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and
he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the
Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of
melody.
51:4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law
shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the
people.
51:5 My righteousness {is} near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms
shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall
they trust.
51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the
heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a
garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation
shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
51:7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart
{is} my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their
revilings.
51:8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them
like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from
generation to generation.
51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient
days, in the generations of old. {Art} thou not it that hath cut Rahab, {and}
wounded the dragon?
51:10 {Art} thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep;
that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
51:11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing
unto Zion; and everlasting joy {shall be} upon their head: they shall obtain
gladness and joy; {and} sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
51:12 {I}, even I, {am} he that comforteth you: who {art} thou, that thou
shouldest be afraid of a man {that} shall die, and of the son of man {which}
shall be made {as} grass;
51:13 And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens,
and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day
because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where
{is} the fury of the oppressor?
51:14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not
die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
51:15 But I {am} the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared:
The Lord of hosts {is} his name.
51:16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the
shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of
the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou {art} my people.
51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the
Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling,
{and} wrung {them} out.
51:18 {There is} none to guide her among all the sons {whom} she hath brought
forth; neither {is there any} that taketh her by the hand of all the sons
{that} she hath brought up.
51:19 These two {things} are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee?
desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I
comfort thee?
51:20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild
bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.
51:21 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
51:22 Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God {that} pleadeth the cause of
his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, {even}
the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
51:23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have
said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as
the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
52:1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee
the uncircumcised and the unclean.
52:2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, {and} sit down, O Jerusalem: loose
thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
52:3 For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall
be redeemed without money.
52:4 For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to
sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
52:5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken
away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the Lord;
and my name continually every day {is} blasphemed.
52:6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore {they shall know} in
that day that I {am} he that doth speak: behold, {it is} I.
52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good
tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that
publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
52:8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they
sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.
52:9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the
Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
52:10 The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and
all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
52:11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean {thing}; go
ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.
52:12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord will
go before you; and God of Israel {will be} your rereward.
52:13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and
extolled, and be very high.
52:14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any
man, and his form more than the sons of men:
52:15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at
him: for {that} which had not been told them shall they see; and {that} which
they had not heard shall they consider.
53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a
dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, {there
is} no beauty that we should desire him.
53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with
grief: and we hid as it were {our} faces from him; he was despised, and we
esteemed him not.
53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did
esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
53:5 But he {was} wounded for our transgressions, {he was} bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace {was} upon him; and with his stripes
we are healed.
53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own
way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is
brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,
so he openeth not his mouth.
53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his
generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the
transgression of my people was he stricken.
53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death;
because he had done no violence, neither {was any} deceit in his mouth.
53:10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put {him} to grief: when
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see {his} seed, he shall
prolong {his} days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, {and} shall be satisfied: by his
knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their
iniquities.
53:12 Therefore will I divide him {a portion} with the great, and he shall
divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto
death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
54:1 Sing, O barren, thou {that} didst not bear; break forth into singing, and
cry aloud, thou {that} didst not travail with child: for more {are} the
children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.
54:2 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of
thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
54:3 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed
shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
54:4 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for
thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth,
and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
54:5 For thy Maker {is} thine husband; the Lord of hosts {is} his name; and thy
Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
54:6 For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,
and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I
gather thee.
54:8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with
everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
54:9 For this {is as} the waters of Noah unto me: for {as} I have sworn that
the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I
would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
54:10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness
shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed,
saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
54:11 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, {and} not comforted, behold, I
will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
54:12 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and
all thy borders of pleasant stones.
54:13 And all thy children {shall be} taught of the Lord; and great {shall be}
the peace of thy children.
54:14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from
oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come
near thee.
54:15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, {but} not by me: whosoever
shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
54:16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and
that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster
to destroy.
54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue
{that} shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This {is} the
heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness {is} of me, saith
the Lord.
55:1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no
money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and
without price.
55:2 Wherefore do ye spend money for {that which is} not bread? and your labour
for {that which} satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye {that
which is} good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
55:3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I
will make an everlasting covenant with you, {even} the sure mercies of David.
55:4 Behold, I have given him {for} a witness to the people, a leader and
commander to the people.
55:5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation {that} thou knowest not, and nations
{that} knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy God, and for
the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
55:6 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and
let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God,
for he will abundantly pardon.
55:8 For my thoughts {are} not your thoughts, neither {are} your ways my ways,
saith the Lord.
55:9 For {as} the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than
your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
55:10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not
thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may
give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return
unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper
{in the thing} whereto I sent it.
55:12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains
and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of
the field shall clap {their} hands.
55:13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier
shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an
everlasting sign {that} shall not be cut off.
56:1 Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation
{is} near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
56:2 Blessed {is} the man {that} doeth this, and the son of man {that} layeth
hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand
from doing any evil.
56:3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord,
speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let
the eunuch say, Behold, I {am} a dry tree.
56:4 For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose
{the things} that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
56:5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a
name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting
name, that shall not be cut off.
56:6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve
him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that
keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
56:7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my
house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices {shall be} accepted
upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all
people.
56:8 The Lord God, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I
gather {others} to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
56:9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, {yea}, all ye beasts in the
forest.
56:10 His watchmen {are} blind: they are all ignorant, they {are} all dumb
dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
56:11 Yea, {they are} greedy dogs {which} can never have enough, and they {are}
shepherds {that} cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one
for his gain, from his quarter.
56:12 Come ye, {say they}, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with
strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and {much} more abundant.
57:1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth {it} to heart: and merciful men
{are} taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the
evil {to come}.
57:2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, {each one}
walking {in} his uprightness.
57:3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer
and the whore.
57:4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth,
{and} draw out the tongue? {are} ye not children of transgression, a seed of
falsehood.
57:5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the
children in the valleys under the clifts of rocks?
57:6 Among the smooth {stones} of the stream {is} thy portion; they, they {are}
thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a
meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
57:7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest
thou up to offer sacrifice.
57:8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for
thou hast discovered {thyself to another} than me, and art gone up; thou hast
enlarged thy bed, and made thee {a covenant} with them; thou lovedst their bed
where thou sawest {it}.
57:9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy
perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase {thyself
even} unto hell.
57:10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; {yet} saidst thou not,
There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast
not grieved.
57:11 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and
hast not remembered me, nor laid {it} to thy heart? have not I held my peace
even of old, and thou fearest me not?
57:12 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not
profit thee.
57:13 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall
carry them all away; vanity shall take {them}: but he that putteth his trust in
me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
57:14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the
stumblingblock out of the way of my people.
57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose
name {is} Holy; I dwell in the high and holy {place}, with him also {that is}
of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to
revive the heart of the contrite ones.
57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the
spirit should fail before me, and the souls {which} I have made.
57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid
me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
57:18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and
restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
57:19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to {him that is} far off,
and to {him that is} near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him.
57:20 But the wicked {are} like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose
waters cast up mire and dirt.
57:21 {There is} no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people
their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
58:2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did
righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the
ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
58:3 Wherefore have we fasted, {say they}, and thou seest not? {wherefore} have
we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your
fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
58:4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of
wickedness: ye shall not fast as {ye do this} day, to make your voice to be
heard on high.
58:5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul?
{is it} to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes
{under him}? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
58:6 {Is} not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of
wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and
that ye break every yoke?
58:7 {Is it} not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor
that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him;
and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
58:8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall
spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of
the Lord shall be thy rereward.
58:9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he
shall say, Here I {am}. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the
putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
58:10 And {if} thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted
soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness {be} as the
noonday:
58:11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in
drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and
like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
58:12 And {they that shall be} of thee shall build the old waste places: thou
shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called,
The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, {from} doing thy pleasure on
my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable;
and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure,
nor speaking {thine own} words:
58:14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to
ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of
Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken {it}.
59:1 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his
ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins
have hid {his} face from you, that he will not hear.
59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
59:4 None calleth for justice, nor {any} pleadeth for truth: they trust in
vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
59:5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of
their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
59:6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves
with their works: their works {are} works of iniquity, and the act of violence
{is} in their hands.
59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their
thoughts {are} thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction {are} in their
paths.
59:8 The way of peace they know not; and {there is} no judgment in their
goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not
know peace.
59:9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we
wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, {but} we walk in
darkness.
59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if {we had} no
eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; {we are} in desolate places as
dead {men}.
59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment,
but {there is} none; for salvation, {but} it is far off from us.
59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify
against us: for our transgressions {are} with us; and {as for} our iniquities,
we know them;
59:13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our
God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart
words of falsehood.
59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for
truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
59:15 Yea, truth faileth; and he {that} departeth from evil maketh himself a
prey: and the Lord saw {it}, and it displeased him that {there was} no
judgment.
59:16 And he saw that {there was} no man, and wondered that {there was} no
intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his
righteousness, it sustained him.
59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation
upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance {for} clothing, and was
clad with zeal as a cloke.
59:18 According to {their} deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his
adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay
recompence.
59:19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from
the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of
the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.
59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from
transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
59:21 As for me, this {is} my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit
that {is} upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not
depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth
of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen
upon thee.
60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the
people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon
thee.
60:3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of
thy rising.
60:4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves
together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters
shall be nursed at {thy} side.
60:5 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be
enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the
forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
60:6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and
Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and
they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord.
60:7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of
Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine
altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
60:8 Who {are} these {that} fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
60:9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to
bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name
of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified
thee.
60:10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall
minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had
mercy on thee.
60:11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day
nor night; that {men} may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and
{that} their kings {may be} brought.
60:12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea,
{those} nations shall be utterly wasted.
60:13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree,
and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make
the place of my feet glorious.
60:14 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee;
and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy
feet; and they shall call thee; The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One
of Israel.
60:15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through
{thee}, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
60:16 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast
of kings: and thou shalt know that I the Lord {am} thy Saviour and thy
Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
60:17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for
wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine
exactors righteousness.
60:18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction
within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates
Praise.
60:19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall
the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting
light, and thy God thy glory.
60:20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself:
for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning
shall be ended.
60:21 Thy people also {shall be} all righteous: they shall inherit the land for
ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
60:22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I
the Lord will hasten it in his time.
61:1 The Spirit of the Lord God {is} upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me
to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the
prison to {them that are} bound;
61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of
our God; to comfort all that mourn;
61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for
ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of
heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of
the Lord, that he might be glorified.
61:4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former
desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many
generations.
61:5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien
{shall be} your plowmen and your vinedressers.
61:6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: {men} shall call you the
Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their
glory shall ye boast yourselves.
61:7 For your shame {ye shall have} double; and {for} confusion they shall
rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the
double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
61:8 For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I
will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with
them.
61:9 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring
among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they {are} the
seed {which} the Lord hath blessed.
61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God;
for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with
the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh {himself} with ornaments,
and as a bride adorneth {herself} with her jewels.
61:11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the
things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause
righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
62:1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will
not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the
salvation thereof as a lamp {that} burneth.
62:2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and
thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
62:3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal
diadem in the hand of thy God.
62:4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be
termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for
the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
62:5 For {as} a young man marrieth a virgin, {so} shall thy sons marry thee:
and {as} the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, {so} shall thy God rejoice
over thee.
62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, {which} shall never hold
their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence,
62:7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a
praise in the earth.
62:8 The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength,
Surely I will no more give thy corn {to be} meat for thine enemies; and the
sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast
laboured:
62:9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they
that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
62:10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast
up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the
people.
62:11 Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the
daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward {is} with
him, and his work before him.
62:12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and
thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
63:1 Who {is} this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this
{that is} glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength?
I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
63:2 Wherefore {art thou} red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that
treadeth in the winefat?
63:3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people {there was} none
with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and
their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my
raiment.
63:4 For the day of vengeance {is} in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed
is come.
63:5 And I looked, and {there was} none to help; and I wondered that {there
was} none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my
fury, it upheld me.
63:6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my
fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
63:7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, {and} the praises of the
Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great
goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according
to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
63:8 For he said, Surely they {are} my people, children {that} will not lie: so
he was their Saviour.
63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence
saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and
carried them all the days of old.
63:10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to
be their enemy, {and} he fought against them.
63:11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, {and} his people, {saying},
Where {is} he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his
flock? where {is} he that put his holy Spirit within him?
63:12 That led {them} by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm,
dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
63:13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, {that}
they should not stumble?
63:14 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caused him
to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
63:15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and
of thy glory: where {is} thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels
and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
63:16 Doubtless thou {art} our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and
Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, {art} our father, our redeemer; thy
name {is} from everlasting.
63:17 O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, {and} hardened our
heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine
inheritance.
63:18 The people of thy holiness have possessed {it} but a little while: our
adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
63:19 We are {thine}: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by
thy name.
64:1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that
the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
64:2 As {when} the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil,
to make thy name known to thine adversaries, {that} the nations may tremble at
thy presence!
64:3 When thou didst terrible things {which} we looked not for, thou camest
down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
64:4 For since the beginning of the world {men} have not heard, nor perceived
by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, {what} he hath
prepared for him that waiteth for him.
64:5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, {those that}
remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those
is continuance, and we shall be saved.
64:6 But we are all as an unclean {thing}, and all our righteousnesses {are} as
filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind,
have taken us away.
64:7 And {there is} none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself
to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us,
because of our iniquities.
64:8 But now, O Lord, thou {art} our father; we {are} the clay, and thou our
potter; and we all {are} the work of thy hand.
64:9 Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever:
behold, see, we beseech thee, we {are} all thy people.
64:10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a
desolation.
64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is
burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
64:12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these {things}, O Lord? wilt thou hold thy
peace, and afflict us very sore?
65:1 I Am sought of {them that} asked not {for me}; I am found of {them that}
sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation {that} was not
called by my name.
65:2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which
walketh in a way {that was} not good, after their own thoughts;
65:3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that
sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
65:4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat
swine's flesh, and broth of abominable {things is in} their vessels;
65:5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than
thou. These are} a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
65:6 Behold, {it is} written before me: I will not keep silence, but will
recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
65:7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the
Lord, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the
hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
65:8 Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and {one}
saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing {is} in it: so will I do for my servants'
sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
65:9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor
of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell
there.
65:10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for
the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
65:11 But ye {are} they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain,
that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto
that number.
65:12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to
the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did
not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose {that} wherein I
delighted not.
65:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye
shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty:
behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
65:14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for
sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
65:15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord God
shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
65:16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God
of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth;
because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine
eyes.
65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall
not be remembered, nor come into mind.
65:18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever {in that} which I create: for,
behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
65:19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of
weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
65:20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath
not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the
sinner {being} an hundred years old shall be accursed.
65:21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit {them}; and they shall plant
vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and
another eat: for as the days of a tree {are} the days of my people, and mine
elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
65:23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they
{are} the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and
while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw
like the bullock: and dust {shall be} the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt
nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
66:1 Thus saith the Lord, The heaven {is} my throne, and the earth {is} my
footstool: where {is} the house that ye build unto me? and where {is} the place
of my rest?
66:2 For all those {things} hath mine hand made, and all those {things} have
been, saith the Lord: but to this {man} will I look, {even} to {him that is}
poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
66:3 He that killeth an ox {is as if} he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a
lamb, {as if} he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, {as if he
offered} swine's blood; he that burneth incense, {as if} he blessed an idol.
Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their
abominations.
66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them;
because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but
they did evil before mine eyes, and chose {that} in which I delighted not.
66:5 Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that
hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the Lord be
glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
66:6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the
Lord that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
66:7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was
delivered of a man child.
66:8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be
made to bring forth in one day? {or} shall a nation be born at once? for as
soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
66:9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the Lord:
shall I cause to bring forth, and shut {the womb}? saith thy God.
66:10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her:
rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
66:11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations;
that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
66:12 For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye
shall be borne upon {her} sides, and be dandled upon {her} knees.
66:13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be
comforted in Jerusalem.
66:14 And when ye see {this}, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall
flourish like an herb: and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward his
servants, and {his} indignation toward his enemies.
66:15 For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a
whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
66:16 For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the
slain of the Lord shall be many.
66:17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens
behind one {tree} in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and
the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
66:18 For I {know} their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will
gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
66:19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of
them unto the nations, {to} Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, {to}
Tubal, and {Javan}, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither
have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
66:20 And they shall bring all your brethren {for} an offering unto the Lord
out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon
mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as
the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of
the Lord.
66:21 And I will also take of them for priests {and} for Levites, saith the
Lord.
66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain
before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.
66:23 And it shall come to pass, {that} from one new moon to another, and from
one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the
Lord.
66:24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have
transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire
be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
